Power and popular protest: Latin American social movements

摘要: Why, in both democratic and authoritarian governments, do the politically economically weak sometimes take to streets not ballot boxes? Why angry workers at times support revolutionary movements but other express outrage through footdragging, strike activity, religion, rituals? And why similar types of protest produce startlingly different results countries? The essays this bookby historians, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologistsexplore these questions a wide-ranging investigation causes consequences Latin America. Eclectic insightful, represent range subjects, from an examination varying faces common origins rural guerilla movements, discussion multiclass protests, essay on popular similarly grounded Liberation Theology. Together studies demonstrate that patterning defiance is shaped by structural forces are independent whatever rage psychological states mind prompted people protest. Using solid, empirical research, they examine how dynamics defiant acts rooted institutional cultural situations. This volume will attract wide interdisciplinary audience scholars, students, policy-makers be indispensable text for anyone concerned with reducing inequities injustices around world, so oppressed need before their concerns addressed."